Quote Originally Posted by Eeek View Post
I've completed about 10 Magian weapons over the course of the past year, and I've had no problems getting them done.

Want to know why? Patience.

Like many other players, I'm not so naive as to believe that I can (and should!) finish any weapon within a day or two. Waiting for the right seasons/weather/days is just part of the process, and so are asinine trial requirements. It's easily surmounted by effort. A little progress here and there added together over enough time will yield a complete trial.

After two weeks, my Cure Potency staff is a little less than halfway done, and I'm perfectly OK with that. I work on it when I have time, and just like my Thunder and Ice Damage staves, I'll complete it eventually. My Daka +2 (WoE Empyrean Dagger) also took about a month to complete. No big deal. Consistent effort over time yields results, but not enough people realize this - they simply cannot look past obstacles in the short term.
And nobody's asking for the abolition of a little effort here and there and otherwise do prefer reasonable trials over camping against a bunch of botters. However, you simply can't say all trials are created equal when mob variance is bad enough, but then you can add sparse weather requirements on top to artificially slow the process. People who have to kill Soulflayers, Peistes, and Hippogryphs get my sympathy, in part because of the mobs and all associated with them while the other is the strength of the weapon itself at the time. Not everyone has a Cleave Party on demand, nor are the listed mobs regularly chosen for that.

So, just because you might be okay with something doesn't exactly make it fine, or the other person speaking against it a mouthbreathing whiner. Fairness and fun in a game we pay to play should be a given, not tedium and hassle.